[Characteristics of mental disorders in patients with rheumatoid arthritis]

Peculiarities of mental disorders in patients with rheumatic arthritis were studied in 70 patients aged 20-60 years. The most typical mental disorders were: asthenic symptomatology, depressive phenomena with anxiety, fears, ideas of self-accusation, a peculiar variation of the syndrome of dysmorphophobia due to defects of appearance, stable disorders of sleep, psychopathic-like disorders and, quite frequently, manifestations of psycho-organic syndrome.